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struggle4progress

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Thu Sep 5, 2019, 03:14 PM Sep 2019

Russia to make new missiles nuclear treaty would have banned

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Holly Ellyatt

Russia will produce new missiles that would have been banned under a recently defunct nuclear arms treaty, according to President Vladimir Putin ...

“We will produce such missiles, of course, but we will not deploy them in the regions where no ground-based missile systems of this class manufactured by the U.S. have emerged,” he said, according to a translation.

He added that he was not happy about potential U.S. plans to deploy ground-launched intermediate-range missile systems in South Korea and Japan ...

... the U.S. withdrew from the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty with Russia in August ...

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/09/05/russia-will-make-new-missiles-putin-says.html

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Russia to make new missiles nuclear treaty would have banned (Original Post) struggle4progress Sep 2019 OP
Let the waste of money arms race begin again. A few are going to increase their wealth dramatically Freethinker65 Sep 2019 #1

Freethinker65

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1. Let the waste of money arms race begin again. A few are going to increase their wealth dramatically
Thu Sep 5, 2019, 03:19 PM
Sep 2019

While others will just have to go without. Gotta use money that could benefit humanity to build more weapons, and anti-weapons, and anti-anti-weapons, and anti-anti-anti.......

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